Tulsa Captures 4-3 Win Over Kansas State

Saturday, February 11

Tulsa, Okla.

1:00 p.m.

Tulsa

Kansas State

Tulsa Captures 4-3 Win Over Kansas State

2/11/2023 4:51:00 PM | Women's Tennis

BOX SCORE (PDF) | SEASON RESULTS (PDF)

TULSA, Okla. — The University of Tulsa women's tennis team earned a 4-3 victory over the Kansas State Wildcats (1-6) Saturday in the Michael D. Case Tennis Center.

The win improves the Golden Hurricane's record to 6-3 on the year.

TU and K-State split wins to start doubles play. The Wildcats won the No. 2 position 6-2, and Tulsa's Maria Berlanga and Lily Hutchings answered back with a 6-3 decision at the No. 1 spot.

The doubles point was clinched by the Hurricane at the No. 3 position when Amy Leather and Myroslava Zelenchuk prevailed 6-4 over Kansas State's Manami Ukita and Florentine Dekkers.

To open singles play, senior Laia Conde Monfort stormed out to a 6-1, 6-0 decision over the Wildcats' Rozalia Gruszczynska at the No. 1 position. The reigning American Women's Tennis Player of the Week dropped only one game in her two-set victory, making it her most dominant win of the year thus far.

Kansas State added a win at Singles No. 3 before Berlanga and Zelenchuk rattled off back-to-back victories for the Hurricane at the No. 2 and 4 positions, respectively. Zelenchuk clinched the dual match win for Tulsa when she defeated Rosanna Maffei 6-0, 6-4. Neither athlete led by more than two games in the second set as Zelenchuk picked up her 13^th singles win of the year and her fifth of the spring season.

Tulsa will remain home to face American Athletic Conference foe Wichita State (4-1) on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 1 p.m.

Singles
1. Laia Conde Monfort (TU) def. Rozalia Gruszczynska (KSU) 6-1, 6-0
2. Maria Berlanga Bandera (TU) def. Vanesa Suarez (KSU) 6-2, 6-4
3. Florentine Dekkers (KSU) def. Lily Hutchings (TU) 6-4, 6-3
4. Myroslava Zelenchuk (TU) def. Rosanna Maffei (KSU) 6-0, 6-4
5. Manami Ukita (KSU) def. Lian Benedejcic (TU) 7-5, 6-3
6. Maria Santos (KSU) def. Amy Leather (TU) 6-3, 6-4

Doubles
1. Maria Berlanga Bandera/Lily Hutchings (TU) def. Rozalia Gruszczynska/Vanesa Suarez (KSU) 6-3
2. Rosanna Maffei/Maria Santos (KSU) def. Laia Conde Monfort/Ana Naranjo Martinez (TU) 6-2
3. Amy Leather/Myroslava Zelenchuk (TU) def. Manami Ukita/Florentine Dekkers (KSU) 6-4

Order of finish: Doubles (2,1,3); Singles (1,3,2,4,6,5)